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Geography, Volume I

Strabo / Jones, Horace Leonard
Geography, Volume I
More scholar and armchair voyager than actual adventurer (though he claimed he traveled widely--from the Black Sea to Ethiopia, Armenia to Etruria), Strabo, antiquity's great geographer, left us this extraordinary storehouse of travel lore. Books 3 to 7 report on Italy and northern Europe, 8 to 10 describe Greece and its mythology, 11 to 14 visit Armenia and Asia Minor, 15 and 16 tour India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Arabia, and 17 e...

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Geography, Volume VIII

Strabo / Jones, Horace Leonard
Geography, Volume VIII
Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveller who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, various parts of Asia Minor, Egypt as far as Ethiopia, and parts of Greece. He was a long time in Alexandria where he no doubt studied mathematics, astronomy, and history. Strabo's historical work is lost, but his most impo...

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